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Ed Brayton is a journalist, commentator and speaker. He is the co-founder and president of Michigan Citizens for Science and co-founder of The Panda's Thumb. He has written for such publications as The Bard, Skeptic and Reports of the National Center for Science Education, spoken in front of many organizations and conferences, and appeared on nationally syndicated radio shows and on C-SPAN. Ed is also a Fellow with the Center for Independent Media and the host of Declaring Independence, a one hour weekly political talk show on WPRR in Grand Rapids, Michigan.(static)
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January 31, 2009
You can argue all you want about how unfair the impeachment of Blago was and whether it subverted the presumption of innocence, but I don't think anyone could seriously suggest that Blago is not one of the most delightfully absurd...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 26 Comments •
Next month will be the 15th anniversary of the death of Bill Hicks, one of the greatest comic voices in American history. Here's a clip of the last performance he ever did, while he was dying of pancreatic cancer. On...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 13 Comments •
Chris Mooney appeared on the Colbert Report this week. Video below the fold....
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 6 Comments •
The former volunteer from Haggard's church has now come forward with more details about his relationship with Haggard. Predictably, it seems that he held Haggard in reverence and in a position of authority: The latest revelations involve Grant Haas, who...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 24 Comments •
From Matthew Yglesias: I've been absolutely Gobsmacked by the nonsense the right is running with on the Guantanamo Bay issue, and the double-nonsense I've been hearing about it on television. The basic conservative position, as I understand it, is that...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 5 Comments •
January 30, 2009
From Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor of the National Review Online: We're a nation not just where you are free to believe or not to believe; we're a nation founded for Him -- so we could praise Him, so we could...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:30 AM • 57 Comments •
Balko caught this post on TwoPlusTwo, a forum for poker players, about DEA agents stealing money from a professional poker player. Here's Balko's description:...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:23 AM • 21 Comments •
I missed this case when it was originally decided. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the constitutionality of a Florida law allowing schools to require all students to say the pledge of allegiance unless they get a permission slip...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:16 AM • 14 Comments •
For the second time in just his first week in office, the Obama administration has contradicted their own (alleged) rules against allowing lobbyists to work on issues that they previously lobbied on. First it was William Lynn, the former Raytheon...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:09 AM • 19 Comments •
I never know what to make of Michael Novak. He pretends, at least, to be a serious scholar and he is often taken seriously by other scholars. But then he writes drivel like this post for the National Review blog...
Posted by Ed Brayton at 9:02 AM • 35 Comments •
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